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<blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 448806" data-attributes="member: 6211"><p>I'm not familiar with this issue nor do I give a sh*t. Societies and economies will evolve on their own and life goes on.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to invade Iraq was predicated on the imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction, not an expensive nation-building project.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, this sort of nation-building isn't prudent from a political science perspective. Human history is rife with examples of the same principle: people tend to resent having foreign systems/ideologies imposed on them. Real cultural change doesn't come by revolution; it comes by evolution. The notion that we have some sort of duty to export our ideas concerning democratic government upon foreign cultures is a cynical and condescending type of paternalism that only breeds resentment amongst the conquered. See the writings of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke" target="_blank">Edmund Burke</a>.</p><p> </p><p>When a people are so dissatisfied by their government, it's up to them to cast it off by their own impetus (because even dictators operate under the consent of the governed). Our founding fathers observed this in the Declaration of Independence and I believe those founders wouldn't have liked the idea of this nation meddling in the political affairs of others.</p><p> </p><p>Generally, I think the United States should have eschewed invading Iraq in favor of an energy policy (more domestic production, a shift to nuclear power and natural gas) that reduced our need to continue meddling in such a f*cked up region of the world. FWIW, the invasion of Afghanistan was damned stupid as well. Terrible waste of resources by a nation that cannot really afford to keeping pissing away money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaybadger82, post: 448806, member: 6211"] I'm not familiar with this issue nor do I give a sh*t. Societies and economies will evolve on their own and life goes on. The decision to invade Iraq was predicated on the imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction, not an expensive nation-building project. Moreover, this sort of nation-building isn't prudent from a political science perspective. Human history is rife with examples of the same principle: people tend to resent having foreign systems/ideologies imposed on them. Real cultural change doesn't come by revolution; it comes by evolution. The notion that we have some sort of duty to export our ideas concerning democratic government upon foreign cultures is a cynical and condescending type of paternalism that only breeds resentment amongst the conquered. See the writings of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke']Edmund Burke[/URL]. When a people are so dissatisfied by their government, it's up to them to cast it off by their own impetus (because even dictators operate under the consent of the governed). Our founding fathers observed this in the Declaration of Independence and I believe those founders wouldn't have liked the idea of this nation meddling in the political affairs of others. Generally, I think the United States should have eschewed invading Iraq in favor of an energy policy (more domestic production, a shift to nuclear power and natural gas) that reduced our need to continue meddling in such a f*cked up region of the world. FWIW, the invasion of Afghanistan was damned stupid as well. Terrible waste of resources by a nation that cannot really afford to keeping pissing away money. [/QUOTE]
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